Political Glance
Newark Mayor Cory Booker won his bid for a U.S. Senate seat Wednesday.
Booker, 44, defeated Republican Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota. Booker had 54 percent of the vote with 99.3 percent of precincts reporting.
Booker will become the Senate's second African-American, serving with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. Booker replaces Republican Jeff Chiesa, appointed early this year after incumbent Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, died.
Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race
Gabby Giffords visits her first gun show since she was shot
Nearly three years after being shot in the head by a would-be assassin, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Sunday the nation is counting on Congress to set aside their differences and enact sensible gun reform laws.
"Now is the time to come together," Giffords said after she, her astronaut husband Mark Kelly, and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman toured the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair — her first visit to a gun show since the January 2011 shooting in Tuscon.
Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdown
From county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington.
The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the tea party in next fall’s elections.
“It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process,” former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu argues, faulting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and tea party Republicans in the House as much as President Barack Obama for taking an uncompromising stance.
The Kochs Can't Control the Monster They Created
The government shutdown and looming threat of default have pitted House conservatives against the Republican Party's traditional allies in the business community. Populist Tea Partiers driven by ideology care little for the pleas for sanity from banking lobbyists and the Chamber of Commerce; indeed, they wear their disregard for Big Business as a badge of honor.
Where does that leave the Koch brothers? The billionaire industrialists have funded a sprawling empire of libertarian-conservative activism; they've been dubbed the bankrollers of the Tea Party. Liberals frequently accuse them of seeking deregulatory policies to further their company's financial interests. But what happens when the Tea Party's ideological warfare threatens to plunge the U.S. economy into chaos?
Right-Wing Activists Abandon Linking Obamacare Repeal To Debt Ceiling
Days before the nation hits its debt ceiling deadline October 17, conservatives are beginning to abandon their strategy of demanding concessions for a vote that prevents a U.S. default.
Even as Republicans downplay the consequences of missing this deadline, Heritage Action and other influential conservatives have urged a new strategy that keeps Obamacare out of the debt. Now, they want Republicans to stay focused on keeping the government closed over Obamacare but relent on a debt ceiling increase.
White House open to short-term increase in debt ceiling
The White House indicated Monday for the first time that it would be open to a short-term increase to the nation’s borrowing limit, allowing the federal government to avoid a possible default on its obligations that could plunge the nation into another recession.
Senate Democrats expect to bring a longer-term fix to the floor for a vote later this week. It would raise the debt ceiling for months, perhaps until after the November 2014 elections. House Republicans said they could consider a stopgap measure if it were part of a larger deal.
Boehner to Obama: No debt hike without concessions
With no resolution in sight, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned that Congress is "playing with fire" as he called on lawmakers to quickly pass legislation re-opening the government and a measure increasing the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit.
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